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Program Overview
Background and Long-Term Strategy
Leadership in rural Australia is a work in progress, with succession planning required to identify and train new talent as existing leaders move on, and as new issues emerge.
There is also a need for leadership from youth, and from women. RIRDC has supported a number of leadership programs in the past, including the RIRDC scholarship program, the Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP), the RIRDC Rural Women's Award, Nuffield, Heywire and other related bursaries and awards.
Key long term strategies
- build research capacity in issues related to rural and regional Australia through funding research scholarships and other fellowships
- manage and support selected leadership capacity building initiatives in a strategic manner (such as the RIRDC Rural Women's Award, Heywire and ARLP)